How to use StoryBoard as an property of <BeginStoryBoard>

Question

Hello:

I have a storyboard defined in VisualState as follows for a StackPanel

<VisualStateManager.VisualStateGroups>
    		<VisualStateGroup x:Name="VisualStateGroup">
    			<VisualStateGroup.Transitions>
    				<VisualTransition GeneratedDuration="0:0:12">
    					<Storyboard x:Name="myStoryBoard">
    						<DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames 

Please note that StoryBoard is defined with "name" and not as Key.

Now I want to start this StoryBoard upon "loaded" event of the stackpanel using EventTrigger as follows

<StackPanel.Triggers>
                            <EventTrigger RoutedEvent="StackPanel.Loaded">
                                <BeginStoryboard Storyboard="myStoryBoard"/>
                            </EventTrigger>
                        </StackPanel.Triggers>

Whatever I tried to assign as Value of the StoryBoard Property, gives only an error. Can I specify StoryBoard within BeginStoryboard when StoryBoard is not defined in Key/value pair?

Thanks

Answer 1

It doesn't seem so.  You might want to define it as a resource instead.

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Answer 2

If I have to have my storyboard as Resources, then I cannot have it under VisualState, can I? It does not take x:Key attribute.

What is the purpose of VisualState if I can achieve what I wanted without VisualState but as Resources?

Thanks

Answer 3

Can you give me an app to work on?

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Matt Small - Microsoft Escalation Engineer - Forum Moderator
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NOTE: If I ask for code, please provide something that I can drop directly into a project and run (including XAML), or an actual application project. I'm trying to help a lot of people, so I don't have time to figure out weird snippets with undefined objects and unknown namespaces.